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Addressing rural disparities at ECU

August 1, 2018 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

GREENVILLE – It’s no secret that rural North Carolina lags the state’s urban areas in education, health and economic development. But East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton aims to do something about it. In what he calls the signature initiative of his chancellorship so far, Staton has created an interdisciplinary Rural Prosperity Initiative to combine… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Nursing, Rural Routes

ECU: Leader in online education

June 13, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – If there’s one institution in the UNC System that’s led the way in online education, it’s East Carolina University. “We are the leader in distance learning in the state of North Carolina,” Dr. Regis Gilman, Executive Director of Continuing Studies at ECU, says in the accompanying video.  “We’ve been doing it for a… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Online

ECU Dentistry: Keeping your smile

May 18, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – In serving rural patients, Dr. Greg Chadwick sees the painful choices people without access to good dental care sometimes must make. East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims to supply more dentists to rural and underserved parts of the state. In the accompanying video, Dean Chadwick shares the case of a teenage… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, EdTalks, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU: More dentists for rural NC

May 9, 2018 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

GREENVILLE – East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine is hailed as a national model for supplying much-needed dentists to rural communities, Chancellor Cecil Staton says. Open only since 2011,1 the dental school has opened eight regional centers in rural communities across the state – extending even as far as Sylva in far western North Carolina…. READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU’s late-night professor

April 20, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they hit a roadblock with one problem. So they decided to email their professor, Dr. Douglas Schneider, at 10:46 p.m. Little did they expect what happened… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence

ECU: Putting doctors into rural NC

April 18, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the state – and more than all but one other school in the nation. “If North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it’d be in a world of… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’

April 13, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s next great national university,” Staton says in the accompanying video.  “We really want to become a national model in all the ways that we… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU: ‘No greater return on investment’

April 11, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton isn’t shy about saying ECU serves rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. “I like to say, if North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it would have to go out and build it tomorrow,” Staton says in the accompanying video.  He goes on to highlight various aspects in… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Nursing

‘We’ve got to find the resources’ for ECU financial aid

April 11, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – Almost 11,000 of East Carolina University’s 29,000 students come from North Carolina’s poorest counties. “Obviously those students are going to come in the door with greater financial need,” ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton says in the accompanying video. “It’s something we’re passionate about at ECU.  We’ve got to find the resources – because I… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

Hurricane-affected UNC institutions give back to community

October 31, 2016 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

Courtesy of UNC@Work Like much of eastern North Carolina, UNC campuses suffered major disruption in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Several campuses closed for more than a week, with students sent home while staff worked around the clock to restore power, repair wind damage, and dry out soaked facilities. But even as they struggled to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2016, ECU, Fayetteville State University, HBCU, UNC Pembroke, UNC System

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